La civilisation humaine du XXI^e siècle se trouve à un tournant historique. Au cours des deux derniers siècles, depuis la révolution industrielle, l'humanité a réalisé des progrès extraordinaires dans les domaines de la science, de la technologie, de l'industrie et du développement mondial des moyens de communication. L'industrialisation a accru la production, accéléré l'urbanisation, transformé les transports et les modes de communication, et considérablement augmenté l'activité économique à (…)

The French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, admitted yesterday that he began his political career as a Trotskyist.
The French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, admitted yesterday that he began his political career as a Trotskyist. Mr Jospin responded to questions in the National Assembly following press reports that he was a Trotskyist revolutionary who infiltrated the Socialist party on the instructions of his semi-clandestine organisation.
“It is true that in the 1960s I took an (…)

The former French prime minister Lionel Jospin has died at the age of 88. For five years the socialist politician headed a broad-left government under rightwing president Jacques Chirac, a political arrangement known as 'cohabitation'. While with hindsight his 1997 to 2002 'plural left' government now seems like a golden era, ‘Jospinism' will always remain as an unfinished corrective to the socialism of the François Mitterrand years and a missed chance to break with a social democracy that (…)

Human civilization in the twenty-first century stands at a historic crossroads. Over the last two centuries, since the Industrial Revolution, humanity has achieved extraordinary advances in science, technology, industry, and global connectivity. Industrialization has expanded production, accelerated urbanization, transformed transportation and communication, and dramatically increased the scale of economic activity across the world. These transformations have reshaped human societies and (…)

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility' for causing ‘substantial' harm globally, scientist says
A new study has attempted to attach dollar amounts to climate damage caused by the US fossil fuel industry. Photograph : David McNew/Getty Images
The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has (…)